Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University is the Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (formerly the First Military Medical University). Founded in 1947, the hospital was transferred to Guangdong Province in 2004 and has since developed into a large-scale comprehensive tertiary (Grade A) hospital integrating medical care, teaching, research, prevention, and health management.
The hospital is among the first batch of Grade A tertiary hospitals in China, a Guangdong High-Level Hospital, and a demonstration institution for public hospital reform and high-quality development. It has achieved an A+ rating in the National Tertiary Public Hospital Performance Assessment for five consecutive years.
Zhujiang Hospital operates 89 clinical departments and 35 teaching and research units, with multiple national and provincial key disciplines and clinical specialty centers. It also serves as a National Chest Pain Center, Advanced Stroke Center, and Trauma Center, providing round-the-clock emergency and critical care services.
As a high-level research-oriented and emergency-focused hospital, Zhujiang Hospital requires absolute accuracy and consistency of time across all medical scenarios. In clinical operations, even second-level discrepancies can lead to:
Inconsistent medical records
Errors in medication administration timing
Surgical scheduling conflicts
Disruptions in emergency response coordination
The hospital therefore required a highly accurate, stable, easy-to-manage, and scalable hospital-wide time synchronization system to support patient safety and operational efficiency.
Time Accuracy
Medical records, surgical procedures, and medication administration must be accurate to the second
All hospital clocks must display unified, authoritative time
System Stability
24/7 uninterrupted operation
Reliable performance in all clinical and emergency scenarios
Ease of Maintenance
Centralized management
Reduced manual calibration and operational workload
Clear Visibility
High readability under different lighting conditions
Suitable for both staff and patients
Scalability
Support for future hospital expansion and system upgrades
Shutai Hospital Clock & NTP Time Synchronization System
To meet these requirements, Zhujiang Hospital deployed a Shutai integrated hospital timing solution, consisting of synchronized clock terminals and a centralized NTP time server.
Installed in public areas and critical departments, including:
Emergency Department
Operating Rooms
Pharmacy
Main corridors and waiting areas
The double-sided design maximizes visibility from multiple directions, ensuring that medical staff and patients can easily access accurate time information.
Deployed in patient wards, nurse stations, and space-limited clinical areas, where precise time recording is essential.
All clocks automatically synchronize via the hospital’s NTP network, ensuring consistent time display across the campus.
Serving as the core of the hospital time system, the NTP server:
Receives authoritative time signals from national standard time sources
Distributes precise time over the hospital LAN
Provides high availability, strong security protection, and stable performance
Automatically calibrates all connected clock terminals and systems
The deployment achieved hospital-wide time unification, eliminating discrepancies that could compromise medical safety and data integrity.
Synchronized time significantly improved the efficiency of:
Surgical scheduling
Medication dispensing
Medical record documentation
Emergency coordination
Workflow delays and time-related errors were effectively reduced.
Clear and accurate clock displays in public areas helped patients and families better manage waiting times, increasing trust in the hospital’s professionalism and service quality.
Automated synchronization replaced manual clock calibration, reducing maintenance workload, lowering operational costs, and improving system reliability.
Changsha Tianqiong Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. is a professional company specializing in time and frequency technologies, focusing on the R&D, manufacturing, and deployment of satellite-based time synchronization and clock systems.
Its Shutai Clock brand is widely used across hospitals, schools, enterprises, government institutions, and public facilities, and has become one of China’s preferred solutions for precise, reliable, and scalable time synchronization.
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